Dec 17, 2007: "Best to go easy on the indelible ink as yet, but it is certainly possible to start pencilling a few names into the Heineken Cup playoff stages after weekend four of pool matches." Huw Richards reports

Nov 15, 2007: "Nobody actually used the words 'peace in our time'...But that clearly was the intended message, and the profound hope." Huw Richards reports from Twickenham on English rugby's big new deal.

Oct 18, 2007: "Come the final of any major international competition and you can sure that some broadcaster will make a mind-boggling claim for the number of people who are watching at that very moment." Huw Richards reports

Oct 4, 2007: "They may have supplied Bernard Laporte with a useful motivational tool, reprinting on their English-language page an outpouring of crashing complacency from the New Zealand Herald." Huw Richards reports

Sep 18, 2007: "If you had told me that an evening out in Montpellier would end with a lively, multilingual 2 a.m game of touch rugby I might have taken precautions against involvement." Huw Richards reports